1st Panel in Croatia: Thesis summary from the “Workshop Active Ageing”

Preconditions for active ageing are: attitude to life, active socialising, health care, continuous learning, entertainment and travelling.
Approach to life requires an individual decision to live actively, planning activities and doing regular duties.
Active socialising includes meeting family, friends, colleagues and being active in professional jobs.
Health care includes regular preventive health check-ups, daily physical activity, recreation such as gym, backpacking, yoga, pilates, skiing, tai-chi, swimming, dancing, walking with friends or alone and having pets.
For continuous learning it is good to learn foreign languages, computing skills, reading books and watching movies or TV series preferably in a foreign language, practising and learning about arts.
For the entertainment we can go to the cinema, theatre, concerts, visiting public events and solving enigmatic problems.
Trips are great to keep constant change and include travelling abroad, getting along in unknown situations, outings, visits to children and relatives who live abroad, study tours related to student’s ideas from the Public Open University programmes.
For active ageing it is necessary to develop the awareness of responsibility for the quality of life from the early youth.
The most important thing is to raise awareness of the importance of enjoying the present, being happy with little things, trying to include some fun in every day and having hobbies because they are elixir of life.